“In an extreme example of angst over expensive medical bills, an elderly Washington couple who lived near the U.S.-Canadian border died in a murder-suicide this week after leaving notes that detailed concerns about paying for medical care,” USA Today reported on August 10, 2019. Five years ago, financial toxicity as a side-effect was noted by two Sloan Kettering Medical Center in a landmark report on 60 Minutes in October 2014.

"Medicare-for-all" could become a Democratic version of the Republican "repeal and replace" slogan — a vote-getter that does not translate to political action because there is neither agreement about what it means nor a viable plan.

With most providers and payers in the healthcare industry either beginning to implement FHIR at some level, or planning to do so, the Carequality community is thinking ahead to the type of broad, nationwide deployments that Carequality governance can enable

If the full Commission approves the proposal, the new contract between MTC and Cubic would commence this fall, with the first operational improvements scheduled for 2019 and the new Clipper mobile-payment app would be launched in 2020.

Faulkner while speaking at the Users Group Meeting which had over 10,000 attendees said that the possibilities enabled by the shared network of One Virtual System Worldwide were huge and would improve patient care and allow for idea sharing that could lead to medical breakthroughs.

Carequality and CommonWell Health Alliance last week broadened its information sharing capabilities between CommonWell members and healthcare organizations by utilizing the Carequality Interoperability Framework.

LA Hospital make news headlines as they agree to pay a settlement of $550,000 for dumping patients in train and bus stations after discharge instead of in shelters. In other news, Anoka Mental Hospital restores it federal compliance